{"id":11548,"date":"2016-07-21T21:22:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T01:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/?p=11548"},"modified":"2016-07-21T21:22:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T01:22:50","slug":"easyeda-releases-a-free-online-gerber-viewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/easyeda-releases-a-free-online-gerber-viewer\/","title":{"rendered":"EasyEDA releases a free, online gerber viewer"},"content":{"rendered":"

EasyEDA<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a free, cloud-based EDA application for drawing circuits, running SPICE simulations, designing PCBs, and even placing\u00a0orders for fabricating PCBs. Now they have released an online Gerber viewing tool<\/a><\/strong> to visualize the Gerber files generated by\u00a0a\u00a0PCB CAD tool. The tool supports the\u00a0Gerber RS-274X format,\u00a0which is an industry-standard<\/em> image description format\u00a0for PCBs. The tool receives the Gerber files in\u00a0a compressed zipped folder and performs a 2-D rendering to generate high-quality\u00a0images of top and bottom sides of the PCB. The Gerber viewer also runs a simple design\u00a0check in the background and displays some useful information about your PCB design, such as its\u00a0dimensions, minimum clearance, copper trace and silkscreen width, etc.<\/p>\n

\"EasyEDA<\/a>

EasyEDA Gerber Viewer tool user interface<\/p><\/div>\n

A standalone Gerber viewer like this is a great tool to review the PCB design files before sending them for manufacturing. This\u00a0tool can be used\u00a0to\u00a0verify the\u00a0component placement and drill holes alignment on the board, as well as to ensure the silkscreen layers are exported correctly in the CAM files. Being on the cloud means it is available to use online at anytime and anywhere, and\u00a0frees you\u00a0from\u00a0having to install any software on your workstation.\u00a0I am sure this tool will come in handy to the users of EasyEDA<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for a quick and easy pre-production inspection of their PCB\u00a0CAD\u00a0files. At this point, the EasyEDA Gerber Viewer<\/a><\/strong> is available at a separate URL. My suggestion to the EasyEDA developer team<\/strong> is to include a link to this tool in the main EasyEDA user interface\u00a0so that the users can conveniently\u00a0launch it\u00a0from there without typing in the URL in a separate browser tab. For a future revision, features like 3-D rendering of PCBs (such as at mayhewlabs<\/a><\/strong>) would be cool. The following picture shows the top and bottom images of my basic experimenter board<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0generated using this tool, where I chose Red color for the soldermask. The tool offers 6 other\u00a0colors\u00a0for soldermask.<\/p>\n

\"Basic<\/a>

Basic experimenter board PCB top (left) and bottom (right) side images derived using\u00a0EasyEDA Gerber Viewer<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EasyEDA\u00a0is a free, cloud-based EDA application for drawing circuits, running SPICE simulations, designing PCBs, and even placing\u00a0orders for fabricating PCBs. Now they have released an online Gerber viewing tool to visualize the Gerber files generated by\u00a0a\u00a0PCB CAD tool. The tool supports the\u00a0Gerber RS-274X format,\u00a0which is an industry-standard image description format\u00a0for PCBs. The tool receives the Gerber files in\u00a0a compressed zipped folder and performs a 2-D rendering to generate high-quality\u00a0images of top and bottom sides of the PCB. The Gerber viewer also runs a simple design\u00a0check in the background and displays some useful information about your PCB design, such as its\u00a0dimensions,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[227],"tags":[1400,1428],"class_list":["post-11548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-easyeda","tag-gerber-viewer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11548"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11561,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11548\/revisions\/11561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embedded-lab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}